Why you'll go Bankrupt hauling around $2 a mile loads

C’Mon man
We were on Bourbon and Pie and you swung a U Turn right in the middle of the highway

Gonna make dave wonder if a tree falls in the forest and no one around to hear it. Does it make noise?

 

Yeah sorry I was behind.

 

It's too bad I've already been to town today.

Otherwise I'd make it a point to stop by the store for a Pie.

Oh well.

Guess I'll have a bowl of clam chowder instead.

 

Yeah

Where you gonna get “go to town twice” money from anyway?

 

In this economy? Only if I get paid $3.14/mi

 

Again, for like the 3rd time now, what is the point of leasing on to someone and loading off the load boards and paying cargo and liability insurance? The whole point of leasing on is access to direct freight with stable rates when the spot market swings the other way. In 2019 everyone here was crying about rates and I was leased on pulling food grade pneumatic giving up 25% *gasp* and was making more to my truck than guys with their own trailer running the spot market.

And with contract freight there are no rates to fight for. The fuel surcharge fluctuates and that’s it. Stability is the whole point.

 

This reminds me of back in the day when we moved the wagons West for sum of dat gold

When it was falling out of people pockets and flowing down them rivers, well….. we all had it pretty good but once that dried up or slowed down. Don’t get me wrong. Still gold in them hills we mines back in the 1800’s but it’s hit and mis
But anyway
Back to me story
Once it slowed all them claim jumpers as we called them wanted to latch onto the big boys
Not all that glitters is gold

 

Pi.